Culture and Science

Madrid 08.04.26

CaixaForum Madrid discovers the life and legacy of Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire

CaixaForum Madrid premieres the exhibition I Am Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria, featuring 158 objects from the British Museum collection that trace the life and legacy of Ashurbanipal (669 – c. 631 BC), the last great ruler of the ...

Barcelona 05.02.26

Hypatia III astronauts carry out the first all-female scientific mission at an Arctic base

Hypatia will lead the first mission made up exclusively of women scientists to take place at an Arctic research base, scheduled for the summer of 2027. The new crew is also the first to include Spanish researchers.

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Madrid 04.02.05

Exposició: Bill Viola: The Passions

Sadness, anger, pain, happiness. Down through time, many artists have faced up to the difficult task of having art capture the complexity of human emotions. Bill Viola (New York, 1951), one of the leading pioneers of video-art, faces this enduring ...
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Barcelona 30.11.04

Exhibition: LI ZHENSHENG. A Chinese Photographer in the Cultural Revolution

Thirty thousand brown envelopes hidden under the floorboards of an apartment for 35 years, bound by rubber bands and ordered by period, place and type of film. Each contained a negative inside a tiny paper sachet. Written on each envelope, in ...
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Barcelona 23.11.04

Instalation: The Disappearing City

Not only ahead, behind, left and right: underfoot, too. Visitors going up the escalator at CaixaForum will suddenly find themselves trapped in the centre of a desolate, peripheral landscape inhabited by mountains of rubble, wrecked cars and cranes, ...
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Barcelona 28.10.04

Exhibition: Rodin and the Sculpture Revolution. From Camille Claudel to Giacometti

"Are cathedrals finished?" Rodin used to ask those astonished critics who condemned his work The Gates of Hell for being unfinished. Trained outside the official institutions, Rodin disconcerted the public with his endless retouching and ...
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Barcelona 30.09.04

Exhibition: Giuseppe Penone. Retrospective

Can potatoes be anthropomorphic? Can steam turn itself into puffs of air, concentric water circles into digital prints and trees into vegetable spines? The work of Giuseppe Penone (Garessio, Italy, 1947) is poetic, intimate and sensual, but also ...
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Madrid 28.09.04

Exposició: Pre-Raphaelites: The Vision of Nature

"Pre-Raphaelitism has but one principle, that of absolute, uncompromising truth in all that it does, obtained by working everything, down to the most minute detail, from nature and from nature only. Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is ...
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Barcelona 22.09.04

The Fundació ”la Caixa” inaugurates CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new Science Museum

From the existence of elementary particles to the age of Quixote, some 13,700 million years of evolution have taken place. This is the lengthy journey that can be undertaken by visitors to CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new, Fundació "la Caixa" Science ...
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Barcelona 13.07.04

”la Caixa” Foundation presents over 20 exhibitions previously unseen in Spain

The legendary Bauhaus parties; the paintings that Turner dedicated to Venice; the splendour of the Thracian people; August Rodin and the influence he exerted over Brancusi, Matisse, Giacometti and many others; Bill Viola's "passions"; the twenty ...
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08.07.04

Exhibition: Dalí in the Empordà. A view by Empordà photographers

"The universal can only be attained through the ultra-local": this phrase that Salvador Dalí applied to a number of Empordà citizens, such as Fages de Climent and Antoni Pitxot, could also be extrapolated to cover the eight Empordà photographers ...
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